Smile Me a New Day!

Photo by Karen Wood
Taken at Beverly Hall farm, Quakertown, PA (http://www.soul.org/)

Light of my life!

Love of my Soul!

You Who brings laughter and joy

To my Heart!

Smile me a new day!

Sing me a new song!

As I step forth into Your world.

Let me see only Your Beauty

Everywhere I look

No matter what someone else

Might call it or name it.

May I see only Your Creation

As I venture forth

Into this blessed, new day.

May I see only You

In All.

~ By Karen Wood



A Prayer for Newness

Oh, Unified One!
You Who desired us into Being ~
You Who spoke us into place
And graced us into Life ...

We bow before You,
Honoring You for allowing us
To reflect such Great Majesty
In such a humble vessel.

We bring gifts of gratitude and respect,
Acknowledging how often we do not stop to thank You
For Your great gifts ~

For Your ancient wisdom passed down to us
Through the wind, the stones,
The rivers, the trees, the land ~

For sacred moments of Silence
Where we are allowed to embrace
The Most Holy of Holies
As we sit in the same spaces as our ancestors
And hold the stillness
Within our own inner Beings.

We come before You boldly,
Asking, yet again, as we approach
The Table of Your Grace and Generosity:

Allow us to crawl deep into Your Womb
And rest a long while there ...

For we feel an urge to newness ~
A desire to create ~
A hopefulness for rebirth ~
A longing for the utter joy that comes
With new beginnings.

We crave to co-create
With the Creator of All;

To birth a new thing
With The Divine Mother
Who is Mother of All;

To sing a new song
With The Holy One
Who birthed all melodies;

To lean into the strong arms
Of The Loving Father
Who holds our deepest desires
Until we are ready to live them.

Sacred and Loving Love of All Loves ~
Allow us to merge our Creative Spark
With all those who have come before
And those who have yet to come after ~

With all those born and unborn,
Those seen and unseen,
Those who share our form,
And those whose forms take shapes
Of the winged, the finned, the leafed,
The animals, the wind, the water,
The earth and fire.

And when we finally emerge from Your safe and loving Womb,
May our Creative Spark
Ignite such an explosion of energetic Joy
That only You ~ only Love ~
Can be seen through our life.

May each new day be a new door
Through which we walk
Into Sacred Spaces,
Into the Watery Depths,
Into the Fire Within,
Into the Divine Love of The Holy One ~
Into You.

~ By Karen Wood
(written in June 2011 on Inishmore, Aran Island, Ireland, and Slane, Ireland)